Lois McMaster Quotes

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

Lois McMaster

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• For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Enemy
  • Goals

• My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Wine
  • Performance

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Children
  • Living
  • Adapt

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• The scene of independent cinema is already a large scene in America, and not in a negative way, but it's cluttered. It's very populated with just American films, so the room left for foreign movies is not extremely vast. The American public also does not really read. They don't read subtitles. But we're like that in Canada, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • American
  • America
  • Independent

• There are different types of bullying; one of the biggest ones out there right now is cyberbullying. I had the privilege of filming an 'Austin & Ally' episode centered on cyberbullying, how it can get out of control, the ups and downs that you feel, and how to deal with it.

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Different
  • Control
  • Privilege

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Lucky

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Work
  • Free

• I always had challenges when I was younger, because I looked so young but sounded older.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Always
  • Challenges
  • Young

• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Control

• I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Elected
  • First Lady

• In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Believe
  • True

• I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Great
  • Movie

• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Good
  • May
  • Fire

• Take advantage of every moment, live in the present.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Present
  • Moment
  • Advantage

• If I were given a choice between two films and one was dark and explored depraved, troubled or sick aspects of our culture, I would always opt for that over the next romantic comedy.

  

  David Schwimmer
  • Culture
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • True
  • Labor
  • Source

• Political analysts tend to overinterpret the results of isolated elections.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Political

• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Real
  • Beautiful
  • Emotion